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Did this Commodore advert suck?

es - No wonder they went bankrupt
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o - It was quite creative actually
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 can\'t see the embedded video so I don\'t know.
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Offline Karlos

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« Reply #14 on: May 18, 2009, 12:22:03 AM »
/me sets up rigged shotguns behind front door...
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« Reply #15 on: May 18, 2009, 12:22:59 AM »
Concept was great, execution was crap.

It was a very bad, over 40's adult interpretation of what a kid might like in a home computer and also appease their parents. Had they just asked a few kids / youths for input it would have been better. (Ask your demographic market for creative input? Surely that could never work!) UK Amiga marketing always sucked, all TV commercials, all magazine articles. Word of mouth, coupled with shop displays in John Menzies, WHSmiths & Tandy are what sold the Amiga.

US Amiga adverts were even worse.

I wonder if in 20 years we will look back at say... the Nintendo Wii/DS marketing (which IMO is fecking awesome!) and think it was crap?
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« Reply #16 on: May 18, 2009, 12:24:11 AM »
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OMG !! :eek::eek::eek:

I think I'm scarred for life. :confused:


Yea blood dripped out of my ears, and I fear those wounds won't heal for quite some time :lol:
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« Reply #17 on: May 18, 2009, 04:03:56 PM »
It couldn't have been *that* bad. After all, Commodore UK stayed solvent while the rest of the company collapsed (this was a UK ad, right?).

I feel like it might have had some success in the 8-year-old kid market.
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« Reply #18 on: May 18, 2009, 04:44:39 PM »
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Of course it sucked


Hahaha! Brilliant! Doomy! Wow! :D
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« Reply #19 on: May 18, 2009, 05:09:00 PM »
On the first sight it seems to be a good commercial. On the second sight: no! It is the same mistake as C= did with those A500 commercials some years before. You see a teenager and a cool homecomputer. But that were already the customers of Amiga. You want new customers, you want grown-up people buying an Amiga? Don't make a commercial showing the Amiga as a toy!
And even that was wrong! What kind of teenager is the target of that commercial? Boys between 10 and 15! No girls, no older people who want to use that computer. Compare it to Nintendo commercials! The exact opposite of stupid commercials in that time did Acorn for the Archimedes. They showed how many educative titles are available for the Archimedes. And who bought an Acorn? Schools. Would a teenager buy a computer used at schools? Of course not. It's not cool.
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« Reply #20 on: May 18, 2009, 06:57:43 PM »
It was interesting the first 10 seconds, but at the end it was just anticlimax.
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« Reply #21 on: May 18, 2009, 07:04:00 PM »
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It was interesting the first 10 seconds, but at the end it was just anticlimax.


Bet that's what you say that to all the girls :p
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« Reply #22 on: May 18, 2009, 07:08:09 PM »
Lame! :)

Advert FAIL...
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« Reply #23 on: May 18, 2009, 07:16:54 PM »
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Lame! :)

Advert FAIL...


Do I detect a fellow affictionado of failblog.org ?
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« Reply #24 on: May 18, 2009, 07:19:53 PM »
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Do I detect a fellow affictionado of failblog.org ?


LoL

Does that deserve an album or social group of it's own I wonder.:D
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« Reply #25 on: May 18, 2009, 07:22:54 PM »
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LoL

Does that deserve an album or social group of it's own I wonder.:D


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« Reply #26 on: May 18, 2009, 07:35:20 PM »
That was a pretty bad ad...... I agree with Matt.


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« Reply #27 on: May 18, 2009, 07:47:19 PM »
Don't forget to take time frame into context with this TV ad. What did most TV ads look like for computers at the time.

For the target audience of the A500, gamers at the time this would have looked pretty good.

I'm not sure that the overall premise was that good - it would have been better if the roboguy turned out to be part of the game and was taken out from behind by the player.

Like the kid was controlling the defenders from his A500 but hey, it's not really the quality but quantity of advertising that killed Amiga.
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« Reply #28 from previous page: May 18, 2009, 07:51:51 PM »
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it would have been better if the roboguy turned out to be part of the game and was taken out from behind by the player.


I can't disengage my double entendre implant...

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